{"product_id":"9780752495576","title":"Keeping Up Appearances: Fashion and Class Between the Wars","description":"The British have always been concerned about accent, appearance and class, but at no time during the twentieth century was ‘keeping up appearances’ more important than during the 1920s and 1930s.    From the impecunious youth anxious to create a favourable impression at the local tennis club dance to female office workers advised by the \u003cem\u003eDaily Mail \u003c\/em\u003ethat women in business kept ‘their position partly, if not chiefly, by appearance’, we peer into the intimate lives and anxieties of the middle classes as they dressed to impress. Choices were influenced as much by the advent of mass production, economic stringency, snobbery and the influence of America, as by personal aesthetics. Seemingly insignificant items such as ties, braces, gloves and hats, could convey a lack of breeding if worn incorrectly. This engagingly written and illustrated book explores the social mores behind one of society’s most popular activities, and reveals not only how we dressed but why. \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCATHERINE HORWOOD \u003c\/strong\u003eis an honorary research fellow at the Bedford Centre for the History of Women at Royal Holloway, University of London. A former journalist, she has a doctorate in history on interwar dress codes and has published on the social history of sports clothes, on consumerism and women’s magazines. She has contributed to the \u003cem\u003eOxford Dictionary of National Biography \u003c\/em\u003eand to BBC Radio 4 programmes on shopping and social history. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The History Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47121975378160,"sku":"9780752495576","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780752495576_p0.jpg?v=1763639521","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780752495576","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}